Unitarian Universalist Church of Muncie :: "This Is My Blessing": Day of the Dead Reading, 2006

"This Is My Blessing": Day of the Dead Reading, 2006

Minister's Prayer for The Day of the Dead: "This Is My Blessing"
©2006 Rev. Thomas Perchlik

Inspired by an anonymous poem.

This is my blessing

When I die if you need to weep

Cry for those who walk the streets beside you;

Care for the trees, and the sobbing river.

And if you need me then put your arms around someone near
And give them what I gave you.

I want to give you

a blessing,

Something better than words.

Look for me in the people I've known

And loved;

Let me live in your eyes and hands

beyond the mind.

Let me be more than memory;

let me be hard questions asked, and undying curiosity,

and wonder at things I have never seen.

When I die love me, when hands touch hands,

In laughter at little jokes;

Love me by holding children close

telling them stories,

and by letting them go when they need to be free.

Love doesn't die because people do.
So when I die

share me with others, for all that endures of me,

past remembered phrases and foolish moments,

will be love.

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